[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

[Thomas Heller]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On 1/16/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>It looks like we need a pronouncement now.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry. It appeared to me that there was general agreement to using a
>> strongly worded warning in the docs, so I tuned out of the rest of the
>> discussion. So for the record, I'm fine with that.
>

ctypes includes libffi.  libffi is build with GNU tools, which would
have to be committed in the python svn repository.

Several of these files are licensed under GPL:

aclocal.m4 config-ml.in config.guess config.sub depcomp ltcf-c.sh
ltconfig missing

AFAICT, these files are only used to *build* libffi, and are not linked
into or have to be distributed with the binaries.

Is it a problem to have these files in the Python source code?

Maybe it would be possible to reimplement the functionality in the
setup.py script, but this is way beyond my expertise.

Thanks,

Thomas